um maundy, fellows who counterfeit the fool, going about the streets
in order to obtain charity
Rum kicks, breeches
Rum file, or rum diver, a female pickpocket
Rum dropper, a vintner
Rum cove, good natured landlord
Rum fun, sharp trick
Rum bung, full purse
Rum bow, rope stolen from any of the king's dock-yards
Rum clout, handkerchief
Rum bluffer, a jolly host
Rum bleating cheat, a fat sheep
Rum back, good natured Irishman
Rum barking irons, prime pistols
Rum dumber, good natured prince of the canting crew
Rum quod cull, a gaoler
Rum, or monogin, good, the most valuable of any thing jewels, diamonds
Rum'un, a trump, a good fellow
Rum ti tam with the chill off, good, slab up, the tippy, excellent
Ryder, a cloak
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Sack, a pocket
Sack, to, to take up
Sam, a foolish fellow, an idiot
Sam, to stand, to pay for all
Sangaree, rack punch
Sans prisado, a person who comes into company without any money
Saving one's bacon, to escape with a whole skin, to evade any accident
Seedy, poor, miserable looking without money
Scamp, a thief
Setter, persons using the haunts of thieves in order to give
information for the reward
Seven-pence, to stand, to suffer seven years transportation
Sew up the sees, to give a person two black eyes
Scandal broth, tea
Scamp foot, a street robber
Scent box, the nose
School butter, whipping
Scot, a savage person
Scotch fiddle, itch
Scottish, savage, wild, chagrined
Score, a debt, fine
Scout, a watchman or beadle
Screwbado, a dirty fellow, insignificant
Scroof, to go about living with friends at their expense
Scran, victuals
Scrap, a villainous scheme
Screw, a miser
Screw loose, a quarrel between two individuals, something wrong in a
man's affairs
Screen, a pound note
Sharps, persons ready to take you in on all occasions
Shake a toe, to dance
Shark, a lawyer
Shade, nice to a, very particular
She lion, a shilling
Shell, to contribute, club
Sherry, run away, be gone
Sheriff's bail, an execution
Shindy, a regular row, a general quarrel
Shiners, guineas
Shirk, to cut, to skulk
Shop, a gaol
Shop lobber, a dressed up silly coxcomb of a shopman, a powdered fop
Shopped, imprisoned
Shoot, to go skulking about
Shooting the cat, vomiting
Shove, crowd, push
Shove the tumbler, whipped at the cart's tail
Shove in the mouth, a glass of gin
Shoving the moon,
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